Welcome to YouMass, a wiki designed to explore the people, history, and culture of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. When the University was founded as the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1863, one of two colleges in the Commonwealth founded under the Morrill Land Grant, a handful of faculty members and students cleared brush, tilled fields, and planted trees to lay out a campus of nearly 1,450 acres. Today, UMass Amherst has a community of over 20,000 undergraduates and nearly 6,000 graduate students working with nearly 1,200 full time faculty.

Intended as a comprehensive online encyclopedia of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, YouMass documents the lives and activities of the campus community, its departments, programs, faculty, staff, and students. At its heart, YouMass is a collaboration between the Du Bois Library's Department of Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) and the campus community, and we encourage members of the community to help us tell your stories, document your organizations, and share information about who you are and what you do.

Built in 1916, Marshall Hall originally served as a state-of-the-art bacteriology laboratory. The building and its annex were demolished prior to the construction of the Integrated Science Building.

As YouMass grows, we remind visitors to the site that information found here is supplied by its users. Because the information is generated by many individuals, SCUA cannot guarantee that all of the content is accurate. We will do our best, however, to verify the accuracy of new content as it is added. If you have a question about the site or would like to report a problem, please contact the SCUA archivists.